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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 8360 |
| AUTHOR: | Miscellaneous |
| QUOTATION: | Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Scrope Davies: Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835. |
| Note 1. Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). Joseph Addison: Spectator, No. 421. [back] |
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